Otto W. Berry of Rye Beach, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Louise Temples - pc_genie@ix.netcom.com Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************************************ Full copyight notice - http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm USGenWeb Archives - http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915 Page 1032 OTTO W. BERRY, a general farmer owning 31 acres of land, with cottage, at Rye Beach, on the Lafayette road, was born in Nova Scotia, May 4, 1865, a son of Charles and Levina (Chute) Berry. His parents were both natives of Nova Scotia but passed their latter years in Rock- ingham County, N. H. Charles Berry, who was a farmer, was first married to Levina Chute, a sister of his second wife. He was killed by falling from the mow of a barn on the Beachem farm in Newington. His children were Otto W., Haven, Ena, wife of Harry Herson; Grace, wife of Fred Merrill, and Ralph, the only child of his second marriage. Otto W. Berry was educated in the common schools of Nova Scotia, which he attended during the winter months until reaching the age of eighteen years. During the summers he worked on the farm with his father. After coming to the states he worked on farms by the month until, having saved a little money, he purchased a farm of 124 acres ad- joining the one he now owns. He sold that property and bought his present farm in March of the present year, 1914. Mr. Berry married Mrs. Elizabeth J. Potts, the widow of Frank Potts and daughter of Azinah L. and Mary A. (Hill) Spinney, her father being a blacksmith by occupation. The children of the Spinney family were Flora Ida, wife of Albert S. Cottle; Mary A., wife of Spen- cer Hutten; Genevieve M., wife of John Watson; Elizabeth J., who married the subject of this sketch; Ellen Catherine, wife of George F. Grindy; and Arthur A. Mr. Berry, like his father, has twice married, by his first wife, Rose Ella Sanford, having three children-Arnold P., Dorothy M. and Earl M. The family attend the Baptist Church and in politics Mr. Berry is a Democrat.